November 2009
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Hooray For You
I finished Mario & Luigi 3: Bowser’s Inside Story a few weeks ago and I wrote this while thinking about what I like about these games. Each game in the series ends with a final dungeon that feels tedious and less inventive than any of the previous environments, although I’d say that the most recent game comes closer to feeling like that throughout the entire thing than either of...
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Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed,...
Maybe it’s just because they were some of the first games I played on a console (and certainly the ones I played most extensively), but to me, Super Mario Bros. 3 and Super Mario World represent almost the Platonic Form of video games. I never owned an NES, but I would walk around the corner to my friend’s house to play his copy of Mario 3 for hours until my mom dragged me back home...
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Here’s Kakkoi, from the excellent soundtrack...
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Living on the Edge
Earlier this year I became temporarily obsessed with an iPhone game. I played it to the end, then went back and collected all of the extra objects, then played through it again just for kicks to see how much faster I could beat some of the levels. I had “write a blog post” about it on my list of things to do, but before I could get around to that, the game disappeared from the App...